Don't take your whole Life into your Head at a time, nor burthen your self with the weight of the Future, nor Form an Image of all probable Misfortunes; This Method will but confound you. On the contrary, your way is upon every Emergency, to put this Question to your self, what intolerable Circumstance is there in all this? For here your Honour will secure you, you'l be asham'd to assign particulars, and confess your self Conquered. Besides, you are to remember, that neither what's past, nor what's to come needs afflict you, for you have only to deal with the present. Now this is strangely lessen'd, if you take it single, and by it self; Chide your Fancy therefore if it offers to shrink from a Moment, and grow faint under so slender a Tryal.